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Hello and welcome to the uninhabitable Earth edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news

of the, what, century, millennium.

Poor Emily, how would you characterize this episode on the scale from like one to happy?

It's like one to apocalypse.

I think I'm at apocalypse right now.

We're at apocalypse. We have, I am Felix Salmon of Axios Emily Peck of the Huffington Post is also here. Hello. Hello. And Anna Chimansky. Hello. And most importantly, we have David Wallace Wells of New York Magazine. Thank you. And you have written... I should say hi, I guess.

You should say hi, and you should say, and you've written like the one text that everyone

needs to read to understand, like, the catastrophe that awaits us.

It is called...

The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming.

And we are going to be talking a lot about the book.

We are going to be talking a lot about the Green New Deal and whether it can prevent the catastrophes that you outline in the book.

And we are also going to be talking about immigration and refugees and whether you can solve the refugee crisis with immigration policies, all of that and more

is coming up on slate money.

David Wallace-Wells, you have a best-selling book which is scaring the fuck out of everyone who's

reading it and even some people who aren't.

What is it called?

And should we be terrified?

It's called the Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming. And the short answer is, yeah, the climate future that we're heading into together is really scary. It's not inevitable. We are the main drivers of the climate future. It's not going to happen if we take the action that we need to. But there's

really little reason in recent history for hope that we will take that action. And if we don't,

we'll end up at some really terrifying outcome. So end of the century, if we stay on the course we're on,

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